A History of Assam c18.5

c18.5

∗ The Manipur mentioned in the *Mahābhārat* was the capital of Babhruvahana, king of Kalinga. It must therefore have been situated somewhere in the south of Orissa or north of Madras. Various sites in that tract have been suggested by Lassen, Oppert and others. Its exact position is still uncertain, but there can be no doubt whatever that it was nowhere near the place of the same name in Assam. It has already been mentioned that the people of Java have also adapted the *Mahābhārat* to their own history and assigned local sites for the principal scenes. In the same way the Chutiya kingdom of Upper Assam was called Vidarbha. Cambodia gets its name from a place in Upper India.